data warehouse

data warehouse

English

Etymology

Coined by IBM researchers Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy in 1988.[1]

Noun

data warehouse (plural data warehouses)

1. (computing) A collection of data, from a variety of sources, organized to provide useful guidance to an organization's decision-makers.

   Coordinate terms: data lake, data room

Translations

collection of data

Chinese: Mandarin: 數據倉庫／数据仓库 (shùjù cāngkù), (Taiwan) 資料倉儲／资料仓储 (zh) (zīliào cāngchú) Finnish: tietokanta (fi) French: entrepôt de données (fr) m German: Datenlager n Hungarian: adattárház (hu) Japanese: データウェアハウス (dētaweahausu) Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Romanian: depozit de date n Russian: храни́лище да́нных n (xranílišče dánnyx) Spanish: almacén de datos m Ukrainian: схо́вище да́них n (sxóvyšče dányx)

See also

• data mart
• OLAP
• OLTP

References

1. B. A. Devlin; P. T. Murphy (1988), “An architecture for a business and information system”, in IBM Systems Journal, volume 27, issue 1, DOI:10.1147/sj.271.0060, ISSN 0018-8670, pages 60–80